This is from my collection of open reel tapes. I can’t remember if this tape is from my original collection from the late 1970s or Ian Allen’s collection of tapes given to KPFA. My understanding is the collection that Ian acquired was from tapes that were to be erased and reused. Luckily, a lot of those tapes were saved thanks to Negativland.

There’s part of an instrumental version of this ad on Negativland’s third album from 1983, “A Big 10-8 Place” at about 3:10 on Part 2 (side 2) of the LP or about 16:32 on the CD.

I believe the term “Rhythm and Blues” means the ad was marketed toward African Americans and “T-40” likely means “Top 40.”

Here are two radio commercials from my original collection I found at a radio station in the late 1970s. More information about Fry’s is here and here. The music in these ads is by Jean-Jacques Perrey and Harry Breuer. More about these artists can be seen here, here, and here. The tape is now missing, but luckily when Richard Lyons and myself were beginning to digitize and archive our collection of old radio commercials in 2012 this ad was saved. I’m guessing these commercials are from the early 1970s.

This is one of the original open reel tapes a friend and I found in 1978 at the transmitter building of radio station KKIS in Collinsville, California. Go here for more information about these tapes. This article I found online I’m guessing may be the only information of Rev. Max Flickinger, referred to on this recording. There was nothing about “American Standard Time Company” online. This could be totally wrong. Comments are welcome.

This is one of the original tapes I found at the transmitter site of a radio station in California in 1978. We (members of Negativland) are quite sure the interviewer is American character actor Vance Colvig. Here is a YouTube video from a friend.

From my collection of open reel tapes, here is a 60-second radio commercial for Mayfair Markets, a grocery chain from the 1960’s and 70’s. My favorite line ,”The second thing that happens is that the butcher loses control.” More about this grocery store chain can be found here, here, and here.

From my collection of open reel tapes, here is another radio commercial for White Front, a discount department store from the 1960’s. This one from my other reel of White Front radio spots is a little longer than 50 seconds. It is also from 1971. By the 1970s, White Front stores were in bankruptcy and these radio spots, at least to me, signal the beginning of the end for White Front. Go here for another White Front radio ad.

It’s very likely the words “Very Wierd” with “weird” being misspelled was not on the box originally.

From my collection of open reel tapes, here is a 30 second radio commercial for White Front, a discount department store from the 1960’s. My parents and I regularly visited the Pleasant Hill, California store on Contra Costa Boulevard. More about White Front here, here, and here.

This was my first attempt at making a tape loop. In 1974, I attended a class at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, California, called “Colloquy in Electronic Music,” and this is the result. It’s so dumb that it must be an insult to the entire institution of scholarly electronic music. You are not obliged to listen to the entire piece!

Here is another item from some old commercials I found at a radio station in the 1970s. The original box for the tape was lost and for some time I thought the tape was gone as well. Recently I located what I think is the original tape spliced onto a large reel of other material. More information about KABL can be found here. I always liked this one, thinking it was whimsical and sort of snooty.